What is at stake in culture cannot be merely reduced to identity expressions (national, geographical, religious, communities). Economic dimensions of culture has more and more to be taken in consideration if one wish to understand arguments and debates developed at national and international level on this topic. Today, issues related to culture are often dealt with in relation with cultural diversity, a concept that has only recently replaced the notion of "cultural exception", which itself …
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…should be the following: reciprocity of exchanges, safeguarding the diversity of productions and access to diversified works, accountability for cultural policies, and the precautionary principle with regard to the maintenance of local cultural productions. Much remains to be done, at the conceptual and political levels, to prepare operating measures on the basis of these principles and define the body in which they could be discussed and agreed. http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/cultural/2003/07regulation.htm